Diverse and atypical manifestations of Q fever in a metropolitan city hospital: Emerging role of next-generation sequencing for laboratory diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii.

• Main Authors: Fanfan Xing (Author), Haiyan Ye (Author), Chaowen Deng (Author), Linlin Sun (Author), Yanfei Yuan (Author), Qianyun Lu (Author), Jin Yang (Author), Simon K F Lo (Author), Ruiping Zhang (Author), Jonathan H K Chen (Author), Jasper F W Chan (Author), Susanna K P Lau (Author), Patrick C Y Woo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Although Q fever has been widely reported in the rural areas of China, there is a paucity of data on the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of this disease in large metropolitan cities. In this study, we profile the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of Q fever from a tertiary hospital...